On 10/18/07, Nancy Sturm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since some of you obviously know what size blankets your Icelandics wear, I > have to ask, under what conditions do you blanket? > > Hunter (14.3), Twist (15.1) and Tali (15.1) three different breeds, all wear > a 72". If Huggin wears a 72", he must be a pretty big boy.
i just blanket Teev for a fly sheet. I have other breeds, I only blanket them in winter when it is a hard freeze. My jaspar lets me know. If the weather report says hard freeze and I walk out there with blankets and jaspar walks away from me, I know the weather man is wrong. If he comes toward me and lowers his head for his blanket, I know its gonna be really cold. it gets down in the teens here. (north fla near ala) but not usually more than a week at a time and usually only three or four days in a row. In 1988 it was 4 degrees with a windchill of 10 below and snow was on the ground a whole week and we were declared a federal disaster area. all the nurseries froze, all our pipes broke, not a car in town would start, we couldnt get to work, the bridges were coated in a foot of ice and we don't have any sort of equipment/salt for melting roadway ice etc. my animals wouldnt even go outside and go to the bathroom. i kept pouring hot water on my wooden doorsteps and busting my rear end over and over til it hit me DUH it was just gonna turn to ice again and I used salt haha. Janice Janice -- yipie tie yie yo
